Ruadhán Mac Cormaic (26) has been appointed to the new position of Migration Correspondent of The Irish Times.
He was the winner of the 2007 Douglas Gageby Irish TimesFellowship for his project "Changing Places: Migration and the Reinvention of Ireland". The fellowship is awarded annually to a journalist at an early stage of their career by the Irish Times Trust.
He has written for The Irish Timessince 2005. Previously he worked for the European Parliament, RTÉ, the Sunday Tribune and Trinity News, of which he was editor in 2000/2001. He is the winner of several awards, including a 2006 Justice Media Award, and he was named editor of the year at the 2001 National Student Media Awards.
From Dublin, he studied at Coláiste Eoin, Booterstown; Trinity College, Dublin; the University of Strasbourg and Cambridge University.